ProductsDiffDogFeature Matrix

This table shows all the features included in DiffDog® 2008.

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		Altova
Feature		DiffDog® 2008
XML Editing & Validation
	Well-formedness checking	•
	Validation (XML Schema & DTD-based)	•
	Intelligent Editing (XML Schema/DTD based entry-help)	•
	Find & Replace with enhanced XML capabilities	•
	Code-completion & syntax-help	•
	Pretty-printing of XML files	•
	Enhanced Grid & Table View	•
XML Differencing
	Compare single files	•
	Compare entire directories	•
	Two comparison modes: textual or XML-aware	•
	Multiple options for XML-aware comparisons, such as entity resolution, ignore attribute order, ignore comments, etc.	•
	Show differences in Text or Grid view	•
	Merge option to help migrate changes from one file to the other	•
File Comparison
	Five comparison modes: textual, xml-aware, binary, by extension, or quick compare	•
	Comparing any text files	•
	Differences indicated with colored highlights and connecting lines	•
	Adjustable colors for indication of differences	•
	Comparing files in advanced text view	•
	Word wrap	•
	White space indicators	•
	Line feed indicators	•
	Configurable differencing settings for different file extensions	•
	Synchronized vertical scrolling	•
	Synchronized horizontal scrolling	•
	Support for multiple open file/directory comparisons	•
	Command line operations	•
	Provides list of recently compared file pairs	•
	Source code conformant syntax coloring	•
	Expand/collapse all folding nodes	•
	Bookmarks & bookmark margin	•
	Visual indentation guides	•
	Text-folding margin	•
	Option to show differences within lines	•
	Comparing XML files in grid / table view	•
	Two comparison modes: textual or XML-aware	•
	Multiple options for XML-aware comparisons: entity resolution, ignore attribute order, ignore comments, etc.	•
	Compare Office Open 2007 (OOXML) files	•
	Expand Office Open 2007 (OOXML) file pairs and compare contents	•
	Compare Office Open 2007 (OOXML) files in XML-aware mode	•
	Compare Office Open 2007 (OOXML) files in Text View or Grid View	•
	Merge differences in Office Open 2007 (OOXML) file pairs	•
	Compare contents of ZIP archive file pairs	•
	Display names and compare contents of files contained within ZIP archives	•
	Export differencing results in XML format	•
	Export differencing results in Unix-diff format	•
	Ignore particular elements or attributes during XML differencing	•
Directory Comparison
	Compared directories displayed in expandable/collapsible trees	•
	Five comparison modes: textual, xml-aware, binary, by extension, or quick compare	•
	Differences indicated with color-coding and icons	•
	Expand/collapse all folders in directory	•
	Support for multiple open file/directory comparisons	•
	Ability to start file comparisons from within directory comparison	•
	Command line operations	•
	Provides list of recently compared directory pairs	•
	Automatic re-load of directory changed externally	•
	Synchronization capabilities (copy/insert/delete)	•
	Synchronize folders including all sub-folders with one click	•
	Customize folder synchronization options	•
	Apply directory and filename filters (ignore, compare only) to restrict display and processing	•
	Define and save custom directory and filename filters (ignore, compare only)	•
Source-Code & Text File Editing & Merging
	Bi-directional merging of individual differences	•
	Text View with syntax-coloring	•
	Line Number Margin	•
	Text-folding Margin	•
	Bookmarks & Bookmark Margin	•
	Visual indentation guides	•
	Find & Replace based on Regular Expressions	•
	Direct editing of files in File Comparision window	•
	Files compared dynamically during editing	•
	Unlimited undo for editing and merging	•
	Find & replace based on regular expressions	•
	Reload original file from disk	•
	Automatic back-up of original file	•
	Automatic re-load of file changed externally	•
Connectivity
	Filesystem access	•
Platforms
	Microsoft Windows application (2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista)	•
International support
	Unicode (UTF-7, UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO-10646, UCS-2, UCS-4)	•
	All major Characterset Encodings (ASCII, ISO-8859, CJKV, etc.)	•